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During the 18th century, scientific thinkers including George Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, and Immanuel Kant argued that humans shared a common origin but had degenerated over time due to differences in climate.
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Why we are blind to the color blue
I think this concept is amazing. Our brain extracts some color information from the blue channel, but delegates sharpness to the red and green channels which are in focus. The result is so astonishing, that I have to wonder if there is something that may go awry from modifying and displaying these images on a computer.
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Best place to live in 2050?
“Considering climate change”: Ask yourself what type of answer you’d have gotten in 1970s when the climate change fear at the time was that we’d all be freezing.
see THE MYTH OF THE 1970s GLOBAL COOLING SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS
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Fasting lowers blood pressure by reshaping the gut microbiota
“This study is important to understand that fasting can have its effects on the host through microbiota manipulation,” Durgan said. “This is an attractive idea because it can potentially have clinical applications. Many of the bacteria in the gut microbiota are involved in the production of compounds that have been shown to have beneficial effects as they make it into the circulation and contribute to the regulation of the host’s physiology. Fasting schedules could one day help regulate the activity of gut microbial populations to naturally provide health benefits.”
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University press releases are a top source of scientific misinformation
In this article, we turn the spotlight on science. We look at the ways that misinformation can travel within science due to misaligned incentives, out-of-date publishing norms, and sociotechnical systems that concentrate attention and credit on a small subset of the literature.
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Learning styles theory fails to explain learning and achievement: Recommendations for alternative approaches
You (hopefully) know learning styles are a myth, but belief in them actually hurts students by encouraging teaching to strengths, not weaknesses. People can get better at visual, verbal & other approaches if they practice & this helps overall achievement! ~ Ethan Mollick
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“The oldest known animal lived 507 years. And the oldest known organism lived at least 4862 years. Can you guess the species? They both died the same way.”
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Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped.
Some have been used in hospitals, despite not being properly tested. But the pandemic could help make medical AI better.
The pandemic has been a great case study of the limitations of machine learning: it is very very hard to make sure that the training data is as clean as you think and very hard to generalize from training data from one context to use in another context. ~ Ben Evans
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Why AR clothing try-on is nearly here
The ability to try on clothes digitally has been a long-term goal that tech companies of all sizes are close to reaching.
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Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk
Other companies across the world are also manufacturing exoskeletons, competing to make them as light and usable as possible. Some are focused on helping disabled people walk, others on a series of applications, including making standing less tiring for factory workers.
Wandercraft’s exoskeleton, an outer frame that supports but also simulates body movement, has been sold to dozens of hospitals in France, Luxembourg and the United States, for about 150,000 euros ($176,000) a piece, Constanza said.
It cannot yet be bought by private individuals for everyday use - that is the next stage the company is working on. A personal skeleton would need to be much lighter, Wandercraft engineers said.
Misc worth mentioning
neverinstall: allows you to run desktop applications through your browser. Apps are run on remote servers with far more computing power than your machine
learn MySQL Database for free on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel
biteable: instantly resize your images yo a custom size or for social media
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